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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 4:20 PM CST for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 1998, 4:20 PM CST (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 5:25 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:31 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Livingston, TN | Spotter reported dime size hail. |
| Apr 3, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Byrdstown, TN | Local law enforcement spotted a tornado. A few trees were down. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBNA 032220 RRA TORBNA TNC027-087-133-137-032325- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN 420 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE TN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 525 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE ...CLAY ...JACKSON ...OVERTON IN EAST TENNESSEE ...PICKETT AT 4:19 DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO ALONG THE JACKSON/CLAY COUNTY LINE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. PERSONS LOCATED NEAR LIVINGSTON...CELINA...BYRDSTOWN...HILHAM...AND DALE HOLLOW DAM SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 3:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Franklin, Moore | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Benton, Humphreys | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 1:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Stewart | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Houston | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Franklin | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Dickson, Humphreys | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 2:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Marshall | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Robertson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 2:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford, Marshall | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Sumner | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 2:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Warren | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Hickman, Williamson | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Coffee | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Smith, Trousdale, Wilson | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Macon | 64 min |
| Apr 3, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury, Williamson | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Davidson, Sumner | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Clay, Jackson | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 4:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Hickman | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 4:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Bedford | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | DeKalb | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wayne | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Maury | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 4:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Putnam | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence, Lewis | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 5:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marion, Sequatchie | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Maury | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | White | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lincoln, Marshall | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Rutherford | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bledsoe | 51 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.